. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CARROT FAMILY. 653 Ammoselinum Butleri (Engelm.) Coult. & Rose, of wet grounds from Arkansas to Texas, and recorded from Missouri, differs in being nearly smooth, with fruit only i" long. 41. ERIGENIA Nutt. Gen. i: 187. 1818. A low glabrous nearly acaulescent perennial herb, arising from a deep tuber, with ter- nately decompound leaves, usually a single-leave
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CARROT FAMILY. 653 Ammoselinum Butleri (Engelm.) Coult. & Rose, of wet grounds from Arkansas to Texas, and recorded from Missouri, differs in being nearly smooth, with fruit only i" long. 41. ERIGENIA Nutt. Gen. i: 187. 1818. A low glabrous nearly acaulescent perennial herb, arising from a deep tuber, with ter- nately decompound leaves, usually a single-leaved involucre, and small umbels of white flowers. Caly.\-teeth obsolete. Petals flat, obovate or spatulate, entire. Fruit nearly orbicular, broader than long, notched at both ends, glabrous. Carpels incurved at top and bottom, with 5 slender ribs and 1-3 small oil-tubes in the intervals. [Greek, A monotypic genus of central North America. I. Erigenia bulbosa (Michx.) Nutt. Har- binger of Spring. Fig. 3165. Sison bulhosiim Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 169. 1803. Erigenia bulbosa Nutt. Gen. i: 188. 1818. Stem scapose, 3'-9' high, bearing a leaf invo- lucrate to the umbel. Basal leaves 2-4, petioled, ternately divided into thin oblong obtuse seg- ments, the involucral one similar, smaller, short- petioled; petioles much dilated and sheathing at the base; umbels mostly compound, of 1-4 slender rays; involucels spatulate or sometimes folia- ceous; pedicels very short in flower, i"-2l" long in fruit; fruit about l" long and li" broad. Ontario to the District of Columbia and Alabama, west to Minnesota and Kansas. Turkey- pea. Pepper-and-salt. 42. CONIUM L. Sp. PI. 243. 1753. Tall biennial glabrous poisonous herbs, with spotted stems, pinnately decompound leaves, and small white flowers in compound many-rayed umbels. Involucre and involucels of ovate- acuminate bracts. Calyx-teeth obsolete; petals obcordate, or entire with a short inflexed point;
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